It's hard not to be successful when one has the best basketball team money can buy. But, with all the talent assembled for the basketball team this summer, how come he couldn't coach America to victory?
We all know Roy Williams would've gotten the job done.
2006-09-14 08:12:16 · 10 answers · asked by conservativeguyfromnc 2 in Sports ➔ Basketball
Mike has had just good luck with players, there are way better coaches than him Roy and Lute to name a few.
2006-09-14 08:19:27 · answer #1 · answered by swooshaz 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Look, college basketball really is a joke. It's basically a minor league that has been hyped up by the media and public. Also, unlike Wooden's era, players seldom stay all 4 years in college and mature.
Also, give other teams credit. They played better basketball period. The NBA is a joke. They ever call traveling, palming or fouls when they are fouls to feed the star-crazed money making association.
I would also blame Coach K for not playing Brad Miller more and going to a zone D. He's a Duke idiot who racks up wins in a minor league.
By the way money did not buy Team USA. Talent never equals championships or Wilt Chamberlain would have had more than Bil Russell ever did. It's all about team and considering a team like Spain has played together with the same 12 or so for 100 games vs. the thrown together Team USA I'd say bronze was not bad given that.
Roy Williams? Please. Another BS college coach. These are pros at the world level not some minor league.
2006-09-14 16:00:16 · answer #2 · answered by fugutastic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's a good coach, but it's hard to really evaluate him considering that he wins with the Duke all-star teams. I'm sure that if he took over Prairie View A & M, he wouldn't be leading them to the NCAA championships. Like all "great" coaches, he's had the benefit of great players with which to work.
As for the debacle this summer, I think that issue goes beyond Coach K. It also has to be with the way American kids are not taught fundamentals like they once were, and the selection of a team without role players. It's tough to win against the best in the world when you don't truly have a "team," just a collection of individuals. They need to do a better job of selecting a team, and I really think they need to have a coach who has proven that they can motivate pros, something Coach K hasn't done.
2006-09-14 08:32:56 · answer #3 · answered by Craig S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We need to realize that America and the NBA doesn't have the best players in the world anymore. We don't play defense, we couldn't even defend a simple pick and roll in the world championships. We gotta stop building these all-star teams and put in players like Bowden and Ben Wallace who actually play some form of defense. There isn't a coach in America who could have coached that team to gold.
-The Mehrt
2006-09-14 12:34:04 · answer #4 · answered by nyneandthemehrt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He showed how much he was overrated by losing in China. The USA's biggest problem was shot selection and the coach should have stopped those players from throwing those 3-pointers up time and time again.
2006-09-15 02:18:59 · answer #5 · answered by smitty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
jericho is one of my favorite wrestlers but he is overrated by fans. Just for the fact his fans that act like hes a God call him underrated, makes him overrated. People need to understand there is a different bewteen overpushed and overrated overrated getting to much credit than one deserves, that would be jericho, hes great but people act like if he left wwe would die? really overpushed- someone that is in the constant spot light,or got a title right off the bat Jericho was better when he was calling everbody a A,,clown but those days are gone cause wwe is pg family friendly
2016-03-17 21:20:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
underrated is the best coach in college basketball and could be the best coach ever. He assembles national contending teams year after year. Don't take what happened in the olympics fool you. He is the greatest basketball coach of all time. you could argue dean smith but he didn't have limited scholarships to give out. so there is no way coach K is not the greatest coach in the history of basketball or probably the history of sports.
2006-09-14 15:22:48 · answer #7 · answered by unknown 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was going to write up my thoughts, but don't have to, Crag S and Nyne and the Mehrt kind of hit the nail on the head. One thought though, it is not that we don't have the best players any more, it is they just don't play as a team.
2006-09-14 12:46:14 · answer #8 · answered by Taiping 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I saw the coach play in the games. He blew it all. No. No coach would have done a better job. Rich, lazy athletes will do what they want.
2006-09-14 08:17:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes all coaches are overrated its the players that make teams good and everyone knows that
2006-09-14 08:15:02 · answer #10 · answered by Mr.Intelligence 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋